Keep recovery drive working while repartitioning

I think of it more like burnt too many times, but thanks.

If you need to go from dynamic to basic again you or others may want to consider
Convert a Dynamic Disk to a Basic Disk
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Brink has added a much more detailed and polished version of method 2 to the main tutorial.

Out of curiosity, how did your disk become dynamic in the first place?

If there are already 4 partitions - windows disk management will tell you if you make another, it will be converted to Dynamic disk.

To answer Bare Foot Kid, yes I am going to create anothe partition. I am going to try both sugestions to see how they go. I am the type of person who has to physically do something to learn it. I want to experiment now before I get alot of data on the computer.

It is nice to experiment and see for you self to see how they react.

This has taught me alot. I tried five different backup/recovery programs to see which worked best on my computer. I have narrowed it down to two I like. Actually including the windows version I have three different backups of my system. Obviously I will have to settle on one going forward.

Sorry for the ramble. I will try the partitioning in the next couple days and post back the results.

I am in the Eastern time zone it it is getting late to partitioning. I make enough mistakes when I am fresh let alone late at night.

Yes SIW2 it did tell me. The problem was me not windows. I am not much on hard drives and perhaps didn't read close enough(lat at night again). I thought it was the partition not the whole drive it was changing.

I find it tough because I am just learning to admit I make mistakes. I guess if we never made a mistake we would never learn anything. The plus side is all I have learned over the last week. I can do recoverys in my sleep.

Anyway I appreciate all the responses . Hopefully this will be behinde me soon and I can move on.

No need to apologize for learning, especially since you already knew to back up the HD image which is more than 90% of us think ahead to do.

We see the Dynamic mistake all the time here. I almost chose it once myself - who wouldn't want their HD to be more "Dynamic."

In the future if you can't wait to ask here, just ask Google.